Frank Wolf

What is the backlog waiting to come in throughout the system?

We are encouraged by it.

What does your gut tell you?

We have had 994 people graduate.

The authorizers, though, with all due respect have looked at this stuff for years and we have watched the prison system go up.

Well, Mr. Chairman, could we try a pilot?

Why don't we do that?

I think it is an embarrassment that the United States has the largest per capita prison system now in the world.

But to have the Saudi government who really I do not think is a very-- helped create the problem that we are facing.

But I still see articles in the paper about it, though. You still see more at state and local prisons, but it is still----

I was the author with Senator Kennedy on the Prison Rape bill.

I do not think you can put a man in prison for years and not give him work. I just do not think you can.

We are down to 17 percent.

It is fair to say Congress has just made it hard.

I was opposed to what the Congress did on Prison Industries.

I mean, that is a legitimate, we think a legitimate question.

It takes money to save money.

I do not think things have improved personally.

Until that time, each agency comes in to gather whatever it can for its own area.

You will not solve the problem with the current office in the White House.

The temperature, put it this way, it lags the greenhouse gas.

In order to stabilize the concentration in the atmosphere, which is what everything is really all about, you have got to drop emissions by 80-plus percent.

Chinese people are wonderful people. I mean, they want freedom. They are thirsting for freedom.

I mean, I think we need scientists, real scientists, people who are honest, ethical, decent, moral who are basing their decisions on science to come up with some of the solutions.

I really worry that what we may very well move on, that this could become such a political...